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Allen Jackson Ministries | Allen Jackson - Christ and Antichrist (Part 2) | January 15, 2025
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- Allen jackson: you learn to believe, you grow up in belief.
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- You say, "we haven't been coached on this.
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- We've been told to be saved and maybe be baptized,
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- Then be a student.
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- Study, study, study."
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- So we study and then we talk about whether or not we believe
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- Those things still happen.
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- Well, why are you studying if they don't still happen?
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- That's called history, and even good students of history imagine
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- That history repeats itself and can inform your future.
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- We should at least be--have the courage of biblical historians
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- And believe that god can repeat himself.
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- Allen: it's an honor to be with you again.
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- We're going to complete our study on one of my favorite
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- Topics, "my friend jesus."
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- You know, at the end of the day, our faith is not based
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- On systematic theologies or translations of the bible
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- Or styles of worship.
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- It's based on a relationship with a person,
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- And his name is jesus.
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- But the key to the entire narrative is learning to trust
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- Him, to put your faith in him.
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- When you're born again, it's not just that
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- Your sins are forgiven.
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- There's a spiritual resurrection.
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- You are made alive in christ.
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- When jesus comes back to the earth, there's going to be
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- A physical resurrection; not one or two people,
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- But over the whole earth.
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- That's my friend.
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- You see, he's not like us.
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- He can--his word will cause a global resurrection.
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- I don't know what problem you have today, but i promise you
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- Our friend is capable of helping you overcome
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- Whatever challenge you have.
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- Grab your bible and a notepad, but most of all, open
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- Your heart to our friend jesus.
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- Allen: jesus is ministering in his--in a small setting, and
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- They bring a young man who has some physical challenges.
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- And he looks at the young man and said,
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- "'friends, your sins are forgiven.'
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- And the pharisees and the teachers of the law began
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- Thinking to themselves, 'who is this fellow
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- Who speaks blasphemy?
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- Who can forgive sins but god alone?'"
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- "just who does he think he is?
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- Who do you think you are to say to somebody they could
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- Have peace with god?"
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- I'm nobody special, but have i told you about my friend?
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- "jesus knew what they were thinking, and he asked,
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- 'why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
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- Which is easier: to say, 'your sins are forgiven,'
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- Or to say, 'get up and walk?'"
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- Now, jesus's point is lost on them, but it
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- Shouldn't be lost on us.
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- He said it's a greater lift to say your sins are forgiven.
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- He said, "the spiritual life that i spoke to him is
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- A far greater challenge.
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- That will ultimately cost me my physical life and
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- A tremendous amount of suffering."
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- Do you think it's harder to say "your sins are forgiven" than
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- It is to say "get up and walk"?
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- 'cause they have no imagination you can say "get up and walk."
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- And jesus says, "you know, that's not really a heavy lift.
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- Just so you know i can forgive the sins, get up and walk."
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- And the young man got up and walked.
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- The people were amazed. his adversaries were angry.
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- Folks, the power of our friend can change your spiritual
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- Destiny and your physical journey through time.
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- You want to get to know him, particularly in the midst of a
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- Turbulent season of great realignment.
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- Now, the challenge is to learn to believe in him, to trust your
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- Friend; and that trust is built.
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- You don't give trust.
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- If you give trust, you're foolish.
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- Trust is built incrementally, bit by bit.
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- So we talk about little faith, great faith,
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- No faith, weak faith.
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- We grow.
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- In numbers chapter 14, it's not just a new testament principle,
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- "the lord said to moses, 'how long will these
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- People treat me with contempt?
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- How long will they refuse to believe in me?'"
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- Miracles didn't cause them to believe.
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- They walked through the red sea.
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- They saw the plagues on the egyptians.
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- They ate manna--they were picking manna out of their
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- Teeth, going, "i don't believe in it."
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- They're following a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud
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- Going, "i don't think he'll take care of me.
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- I just don't think he'll take care of me."
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- They got red sea mud on the sandals that they're wearing,
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- Saying, "do you think we can trust him?"
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- We're no better.
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- He was asking them to do new things, to walk in new ways.
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- We don't like that.
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- We don't want to change; we want god to bless us in the way that
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- We want to walk, or i do.
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- I struggle with that.
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- "how long will they refuse to believe in me?"
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- It's a theme in john's gospel.
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- In john chapter 6, "jesus declared,
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- 'i'm the bread of life.
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- He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who
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- Believes in me will never be thirsty.'"
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- "if you will believe in me, you'll never be thirsty."
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- And he said, "but i've told you, you've seen me
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- And you still won't believe."
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- There's a struggle and jesus is identifying it.
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- This tension, it exists in all of us.
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- We'll sit here for a minute go, "oh, i believe,
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- Lord, i believe."
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- And then we'll get up tomorrow and go, "i don't know.
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- Maybe i was emotional."
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- John 7, jesus stood in a loud voice and he said,
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- "if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
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- Whoever believes in me, streams of living water
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- Will flow from within him."
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- What i love about it is it's personal.
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- You don't need the pastor, the priest, the bishop.
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- If you will believe, streams of living water will come from you.
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- What you believe about jesus is ultimately the
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- Game changer, but belief is not a theory.
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- It has to be expressed.
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- Believe, believing, faith, faithful, unfaithful; it's not
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- As clear in english, but in the greek, the language of the
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- New testament, they're all-- very clearly
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- They come from the same root.
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- They're all interchangeable.
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- To be a person who believes is a faithful person.
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- What's it mean to be a person of great faith?
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- It means to be a person who's consistently faithful.
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- John chapter 11, jesus said to her--this is martha.
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- Her brother's dead. she's upset.
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- "if you'd have just been here, lord; if you
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- Would have been here-- i know you.
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- If you had been here--but you weren't here and now the window
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- Of opportunity is closed."
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- You have any windows of opportunity that are closed?
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- Jesus said, "i'm the resurrection and the life.
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- He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.
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- Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
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- Do you believe this?"
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- "yeah, yeah. whatever."
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- It's kind of what she meant.
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- She couldn't process what he was saying.
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- I'm convinced that--so much of the time i struggle to process
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- What god is inviting me to understand.
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- "lord, i believe that you are the messiah, the son of god,
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- Who's come into the world."
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- "good enough. let's go see lazarus," woohoo.
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- We talked about fundamentals a minute ago.
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- Folks, you don't have to understand why or how.
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- I don't know how my cell phone works.
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- I just want it to work.
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- I can't rebuild the car-- the engine in my car, but if
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- It'll come on when i turn the key, i'm golden.
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- I don't even know how fire works.
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- Forget cars and cell phones; fire is a mystery to me but i
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- Sure enjoy it, benefit from it in a lot of ways.
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- Get to know your friend. believe in him.
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- John 12, "at the same time many among the leaders believed
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- In jesus, but because of the pharisees they
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- Wouldn't confess their faith.
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- They were afraid they'd be put out of the synagogue.
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- They loved the praise of men more than the praise of god."
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- Things haven't changed that much.
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- "then jesus cried out, 'when a man believes in me, he doesn't
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- Believe in me only, but in the one who sent to me.
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- When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.
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- I have come into the world as a light, so that the one who
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- Believes in me should stay in darkness.'"
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- Folks, the essence of our faith is believing in jesus.
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- Make him your friend.
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- Develop that friendship.
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- Learn to trust him.
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- The more you walk with him, the more you invite him into
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- Circumstances, the more you listen to his voice, the more
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- You pay attention to his counsel; those are all ways that
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- That friendship is strengthened.
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- Don't leave him as a casual acquaintance.
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- Don't leave him as somebody you know in a worship service.
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- If you don't invite him into your personal life, you won't
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- Believe he can make a difference in your personal life.
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- You want to be in charge of it.
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- If you don't invite him into your resource management, you
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- Can't trust him for stability in a very unstable time because
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- You haven't made him your friend in that arena.
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- Practice, cultivate, learn to believe in him.
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- We learn to believe.
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- Look at matthew 8.
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- The disciples went and woke jesus.
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- They're in a boat on the sea of galilee.
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- Did you know jesus was woke?
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- [congregation laughing]
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- Allen: it's biblical. it's right there.
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- Disciples were woke and they went and woke jesus.
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- It's bad grammar and it's bad theology, but it's funny.
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- The disciples went and woke jesus, said,
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- "lord, we're going to drown."
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- Heaven forbid he not be awake when he was drowning.
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- I think this story has far less to do with jesus and far
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- More to do with the disciples.
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- Look at jesus's answer to them.
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- He said, "you of little faith, why are you so afraid?"
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- I'll tell you my takeaway.
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- When fear is real in me and tangible in me,
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- My faith is small.
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- And to the degree you're afraid, you're afraid of the future,
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- You're afraid of uncertainty, you're afraid of whatever,
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- It's a place where we can learn to believe more fully.
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- We could trust more fully because belief and faith, again,
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- They all come very clearly from the same root.
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- They're the same--they're momentum in the same direction.
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- When i'm afraid, my faith is small.
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- Jesus said, "i'm with you in the boat.
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- Do you really think--" right?
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- "you really think we're all gonna drown out here?
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- What are you--"
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- "well, we were afraid." "yeah, i see that."
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- I mean, they're fishermen. he's a carpenter.
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- You wake up a carpenter to help the fishermen in
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- The middle of a storm?
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- Fear is not rational. fear is not logical.
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- Fear is not about common sense.
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- Fear overrides all those circuits.
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- It makes you respond in goofy ways.
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- We need some faith, folks.
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- We got to get to know our friend better.
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- We got to get to know our friend better.
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- You learn to believe. you grow up in belief.
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- You say, "we haven't been coached on this.
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- We've been told to be saved and maybe be baptized,
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- Then be a student.
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- Study, study, study."
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- So we study and then we talk about whether or not we believe
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- Those things still happen.
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- Well, why are you studying if they don't still happen?
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- That's called history, and even good students of history imagine
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- That history repeats itself and can inform your future.
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- We should at least be--have the courage of biblical historians
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- And believe that god can repeat himself.
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- There's another spirit at work when you open your bible and say
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- This isn't relevant for you, and it's not the holy spirit.
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- Remember, true and false, it's important.
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- Matthew 14, peter got down out of the boat.
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- Jesus is walking on the lake.
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- They'd never seen that before.
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- Peter got out of the boat. god bless him.
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- He walked on the water and he came towards jesus.
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- I've been on that lake hundreds of times.
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- I keep trying.
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- I've been wet a lot.
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- "but when peter saw the wind and the--he was afraid and he began
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- To sink, and jesus-- he said, 'lord, save me.'
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- And immediately jesus reached out his hand and said,
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- 'you of little faith, why did you doubt?'"
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- So there's another opponent adversary of belief in your
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- Life, and that's doubt.
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- Again, not quite as clear in the english language.
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- More clear in the language of the new testament.
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- But unbelief and belief right there together.
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- You have to choose to believe.
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- Unbelief will come to you more frequently.
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- There are more voices that reinforce it.
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- "you really believe that? what makes you believe that?
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- Why do you think that?
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- Don't know if i believe that."
- 00:11:42.951 --> 00:11:44.285
- You see, the things that you really know, you don't care if
- 00:11:44.285 --> 00:11:45.887
- Anybody else believes them or not.
- 00:11:45.887 --> 00:11:47.956
- "i know where i can go and catch these fish."
- 00:11:47.956 --> 00:11:51.092
- "well, i don't believe it."
- 00:11:51.092 --> 00:11:52.427
- "stay home."
- 00:11:52.427 --> 00:11:55.396
- "i know the outcome if i'll do this procedure in this way."
- 00:11:55.396 --> 00:11:59.067
- "i don't know if i believe it or not."
- 00:11:59.067 --> 00:12:00.401
- "i'm not really asking you to believe it,
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- I'm telling you i know."
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- How well do you know your friend?
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- Are you growing in belief?
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- If you had to plot that on a chart, is your
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- Belief in the lord growing?
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- Is it static? is it diminishing?
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- What are you doing with that?
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- How are you feeding it? how are you exercising it?
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- 'cause you have to exercise it.
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- How much education about your friend do you need
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- Before you'll start to treat him like a friend?
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- Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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- News everywhere.
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- Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
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- Female: we have the groceries we need.
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- Male: another year cancer-free.
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- Female: we bought our first house this year.
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- Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
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- Male: i have a working car.
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- Female: my husband came home safe.
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- Female announcer: philippians 4 tells us to, "think about
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- Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable,
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- Excellent and praiseworthy."
- 00:13:07.802 --> 00:13:10.071
- All of these things honor god and when we take time to notice
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- Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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- Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
- 00:13:19.013 --> 00:13:21.549
- Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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- So, the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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- We've prepared a tool we want to share with you.
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- It's a good news journal.
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- We wanna help you set a habit this year to do something with a
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- Bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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- The past.
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- We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
- 00:13:40.935 --> 00:13:43.972
- Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
- 00:13:43.972 --> 00:13:47.208
- So, we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
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- Of your devotional.
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- It's something you could include the children, the grandchildren.
- 00:13:51.546 --> 00:13:53.781
- You could take it to work and create a good news journal for
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- The people you work with.
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- Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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- Intentionally saying, "thank you," to the lord for his
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- Goodness to us.
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- I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
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- Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
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- Blessings of god in this year.
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- I think you'll enjoy the journal.
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- God bless.
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- Female announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice
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- How god is constantly at work all around you.
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- Our new 52-week, good news notebook gives you a place to
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- Record your good news, prayers you saw god answer, and your
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- Current prayer requests.
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- As you look back on your lists over the weeks and months to
- 00:14:32.820 --> 00:14:35.690
- Come, you'll find a personal record of god's faithfulness
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- To you.
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- Allen: we are trusting god for a year like no other for his
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- Breakthroughs this year.
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- Each of our lives.
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- Allen: then in matthew 16, matthew is a primer in learning
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- To believe, "when they went across the lake,
- 00:15:34.449 --> 00:15:36.651
- The disciples forgot to take bread."
- 00:15:36.651 --> 00:15:39.754
- Panic, 'cause jesus had demonstrated shortages
- 00:15:39.754 --> 00:15:42.757
- Of food were a problem.
- 00:15:42.757 --> 00:15:45.360
- "'be careful,' jesus said to them.
- 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.061
- 'be on your guard against the yeast of the
- 00:15:47.061 --> 00:15:48.796
- Pharisees and the sadducees.'
- 00:15:48.796 --> 00:15:50.131
- They discussed this amongst themselves and said,
- 00:15:50.131 --> 00:15:52.433
- 'it's because we didn't bring any bread.'"
- 00:15:52.433 --> 00:15:56.637
- I'm telling you, jesus made disciples
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- Out of the three stooges.
- 00:15:58.373 --> 00:16:01.809
- He just had 12, and one of them was no count at all.
- 00:16:01.809 --> 00:16:05.847
- "beware of the yeast of the pharisees--be careful of the
- 00:16:05.847 --> 00:16:07.982
- Character of the sadducees and the pharisees because they will
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- Infect you, and a little exposure to them will diminish
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- Your ability to believe," is what jesus said.
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- Who do you respect?
- 00:16:18.593 --> 00:16:20.561
- Whom do you listen to?
- 00:16:20.561 --> 00:16:23.097
- What are the voices of authority that you will accept regarding
- 00:16:23.097 --> 00:16:25.533
- Your future, and your contentment, and your happiness?
- 00:16:25.533 --> 00:16:29.704
- Are they godly?
- 00:16:29.704 --> 00:16:32.940
- I don't mean godly in veneer, godly in façade.
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- I mean, it's--the evidence of their life, the fruit of their
- 00:16:36.010 --> 00:16:38.513
- Life, does it suggest a passion for a friendship with jesus?
- 00:16:38.513 --> 00:16:44.118
- If not, jesus's warning is legitimate for all of us.
- 00:16:44.118 --> 00:16:46.687
- "beware of the yeast of the pharisees and the sadducees."
- 00:16:46.687 --> 00:16:49.490
- They had great education and lots of religious behaviors,
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- But their trajectory of faith in their life
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- Was not moving towards jesus.
- 00:16:54.128 --> 00:16:55.496
- They were his antagonists.
- 00:16:55.496 --> 00:16:56.864
- It's true and false again.
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- You see, belief will lead you towards the
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- Identification of the true.
- 00:17:02.503 --> 00:17:06.507
- As much as you're willing to follow the science,
- 00:17:06.507 --> 00:17:08.309
- Follow faith.
- 00:17:08.309 --> 00:17:10.845
- Follow those who believe.
- 00:17:10.845 --> 00:17:15.516
- Jesus looked at them, said, "you of little faith,
- 00:17:15.516 --> 00:17:20.354
- Why are you talking about no bread?"
- 00:17:20.354 --> 00:17:22.657
- Then he goes on to say, you know, "we had five loaves.
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- How many did we feed?"
- 00:17:24.592 --> 00:17:25.927
- "five thousand."
- 00:17:25.927 --> 00:17:28.763
- "and then you had seven loaves. how many did you feed?"
- 00:17:28.763 --> 00:17:30.865
- "well, i guess 3,000."
- 00:17:30.865 --> 00:17:34.001
- "and there's a dozen of us and you got a couple of loaves.
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- We're good for what, 7, 8 years?"
- 00:17:36.170 --> 00:17:41.642
- You see, their lack of faith came out of a
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- Lack of spiritual awareness.
- 00:17:47.048 --> 00:17:50.518
- We've got to cultivate an awareness for spiritual things,
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- Your willingness to believe in them.
- 00:17:52.453 --> 00:17:54.655
- How many times have i talked to people about things that opened
- 00:17:54.655 --> 00:17:56.724
- Their lives to destructive spiritual things and go,
- 00:17:56.724 --> 00:17:59.494
- "i don't believe in that," as if that protects you.
- 00:17:59.494 --> 00:18:03.231
- We just walked through a season where we all changed our lives
- 00:18:03.231 --> 00:18:05.967
- Almost in total around a virus that we knew very little about.
- 00:18:05.967 --> 00:18:09.737
- We didn't know how it was transmitted.
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- We didn't know what the symptomology would be.
- 00:18:11.405 --> 00:18:13.541
- We didn't know what the treatment was and we changed
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- Everything about our lives because somebody we didn't know
- 00:18:15.209 --> 00:18:17.445
- Told us it was a threat.
- 00:18:17.445 --> 00:18:20.148
- I'm not saying we were wrong.
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- I'm saying if you'll do that about something physical,
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- Why are we so stubborn about spiritual things?
- 00:18:24.485 --> 00:18:28.256
- Why would you take that chance?
- 00:18:28.256 --> 00:18:29.657
- Why would you play with the occult?
- 00:18:29.657 --> 00:18:32.193
- Why would you dabble with spiritual forces?
- 00:18:32.193 --> 00:18:34.295
- Why would you refuse to forgive?
- 00:18:34.295 --> 00:18:35.997
- Why would you harbor anger?
- 00:18:35.997 --> 00:18:37.398
- Why would you choose immorality?
- 00:18:37.398 --> 00:18:40.001
- Why would we not repent?
- 00:18:40.001 --> 00:18:41.402
- Why do we ignore the spiritual counsel?
- 00:18:41.402 --> 00:18:45.373
- 'cause we have small faith because our friendship with
- 00:18:45.373 --> 00:18:48.109
- Jesus is so distant, so formal, so stilted.
- 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:51.846
- We don't trust him.
- 00:18:51.846 --> 00:18:53.548
- We're a church, you know, where people hang out.
- 00:18:53.548 --> 00:18:54.949
- We can recognize a church building.
- 00:18:54.949 --> 00:18:56.384
- We know what a bible looks like.
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- We can grow in belief.
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- We can grow in that. the friendship will grow.
- 00:19:00.354 --> 00:19:02.456
- Your confidence in him will grow.
- 00:19:02.456 --> 00:19:03.791
- Your trust in him will grow.
- 00:19:03.791 --> 00:19:07.495
- Your instincts around him-- you'll know his character.
- 00:19:07.495 --> 00:19:09.630
- You'll understand, "that's the lord.
- 00:19:09.630 --> 00:19:10.965
- That feels like the lord to me.
- 00:19:10.965 --> 00:19:12.867
- That sounds like the lord."
- 00:19:12.867 --> 00:19:14.368
- It'll be a warning sign when somebody will be using
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- Religious language in a religious building in a
- 00:19:16.304 --> 00:19:18.139
- Religious setting, you know.
- 00:19:18.139 --> 00:19:19.707
- That does not feel like the character of my friend.
- 00:19:19.707 --> 00:19:21.876
- There are some things you could tell me about my good friends
- 00:19:21.876 --> 00:19:23.878
- And i can tell you whether it was true or not based on the
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- Character i know in them.
- 00:19:25.947 --> 00:19:28.783
- I want to know jesus that way.
- 00:19:28.783 --> 00:19:31.419
- I want to know jesus that way.
- 00:19:34.956 --> 00:19:36.357
- I want you to know jesus that way.
- 00:19:36.357 --> 00:19:39.160
- My time.
- 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:46.100
- Well, the next step of this, whenever we do it, is to help us
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- Recognize the true and the false.
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- Because if you know what your friend has brought to
- 00:19:57.745 --> 00:20:00.781
- Your life, you'll recognize something when it can't bring
- 00:20:00.781 --> 00:20:03.417
- That same set of things.
- 00:20:03.417 --> 00:20:06.654
- And i'll drop this one idea.
- 00:20:06.654 --> 00:20:08.723
- The spirit of antichrist is prevalent in our world today.
- 00:20:08.723 --> 00:20:13.327
- Antichrist carries with it two meanings.
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- One is in place of and the other is against; and i think you see
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- Expressions of both of those ideas, things that prefer to be
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- Worshiped, things that need to--pretend to be acknowledged
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- As the solution to everything, and then expressions that oppose
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- Any assertion that jesus truly is the solution.
- 00:20:33.581 --> 00:20:39.587
- That spirit is so prevalent in the world.
- 00:20:39.587 --> 00:20:41.656
- The reason that should have your attention is at some point ahead
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- Of us there will be an individual step on to the stage
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- Of human history that will-- the nations of the world will
- 00:20:47.828 --> 00:20:50.965
- Invite into a role of leadership: the antichrist.
- 00:20:50.965 --> 00:20:55.236
- What will make that possible is the prevalence of
- 00:20:55.236 --> 00:20:58.572
- The spirit of antichrist.
- 00:20:58.572 --> 00:21:01.709
- So what i would ask you is just from your point of evaluation if
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- You had to chart it, if you had to plot it on a graph, would you
- 00:21:06.314 --> 00:21:09.317
- Say the expressions against jesus as lord or the expressions
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- Of saying this is more important than jesus is lord, both
- 00:21:15.890 --> 00:21:20.328
- Expressions of the spirit of antichrist, are they increasing
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- In our world or decreasing?
- 00:21:23.431 --> 00:21:26.267
- And you don't have to answer that, you need to reflect
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- On it 'cause it's--i'll give you my opinion.
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- I think they are increasing exponentially.
- 00:21:30.938 --> 00:21:34.575
- There's a turning away in a culture that has been
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- Founded upon a judeo-christian worldview.
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- Our legal system, our finest educational system--
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- We used to train our children in schools with
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- Government funding from the bible.
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- Not teaching them to be methodist or presbyterian
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- Or roman catholic or southern baptist, but giving them
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- A biblical worldview.
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- It was commonplace in the medical community, the legal
- 00:22:00.234 --> 00:22:02.903
- Community, the academic community for the christian
- 00:22:02.903 --> 00:22:05.873
- Faith to be welcomed.
- 00:22:05.873 --> 00:22:08.709
- Now not only is that not true, there are powerful voices trying
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- To say it's never been true to rewrite the history so that our
- 00:22:11.712 --> 00:22:14.949
- Children can't even be told it's their heritage.
- 00:22:14.949 --> 00:22:18.686
- Do you know what would happen if you tried to destroy the history
- 00:22:18.686 --> 00:22:21.422
- Of the native american culture?
- 00:22:21.422 --> 00:22:25.526
- It shouldn't be, i'm not saying it should,
- 00:22:25.526 --> 00:22:27.061
- But there would be an outcry.
- 00:22:27.061 --> 00:22:28.763
- But they're destroying the history of the judeo-christian
- 00:22:28.763 --> 00:22:31.665
- Impact on this culture and we haven't cared enough about our
- 00:22:31.665 --> 00:22:35.803
- Friend to say, "whoa, wait a minute."
- 00:22:35.803 --> 00:22:41.642
- So what i want you to think about is what's the trend line
- 00:22:41.642 --> 00:22:44.712
- On that and it'll help you understand the degree to which
- 00:22:44.712 --> 00:22:48.549
- We're coming closer to that individual being welcomed.
- 00:22:48.549 --> 00:22:53.888
- What we're watching is not logical.
- 00:22:53.888 --> 00:22:57.057
- We're having a debate on how to secure our futures these days.
- 00:22:57.057 --> 00:22:58.893
- It's appropriate.
- 00:22:58.893 --> 00:23:00.227
- Violence is escalating dramatically, but one of the
- 00:23:00.227 --> 00:23:02.163
- Ideas is you should--18 years old is not old enough
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- To be able to buy a weapon.
- 00:23:04.999 --> 00:23:06.333
- I'm not entering into that, i'm not--
- 00:23:06.333 --> 00:23:08.002
- I don't have the information to argue that, but
- 00:23:08.002 --> 00:23:10.271
- I'm telling you it's logically inconsistent to say at 18 you
- 00:23:10.271 --> 00:23:13.174
- Couldn't buy a gun, but at 5 years old, we want to talk to
- 00:23:13.174 --> 00:23:15.342
- You about changing your gender.
- 00:23:15.342 --> 00:23:18.379
- That makes no sense to me.
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- [applause]
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- Allen: and we have that conversation because we're
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- Not alive spiritually.
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- We have no spiritual awareness whatsoever.
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- So talk about whatever, just whatever makes you happy or
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- Whatever makes you chic or whatever somebody said.
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- Folks, we need god's people to understand who our friend is.
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- He will change the world.
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- Our problem is not politicians or political parties
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- Or ideologies.
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- The problem we face is we're a long way away from our friend.
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- I'll close with this.
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- It's not in your notes, but trust me, it's in the book.
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- Revelation 5, john said, "i looked and i heard the
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- Voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands,
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- And ten thousand times ten thousand."
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- I really--i mean, it's a legitimate
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- Number that you can calculate.
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- It's not one you can understand.
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- A thousand times a thousand is a million.
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- So is it safe to say there was a whole lot of angels,
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- Just--almost further than you could see?
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- An innumerable company of angels.
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- "they encircled the throne and the living creatures, and in a
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- Loud voice they sang, 'worthy is the lamb who was slain.'"
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- That's our friend.
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- An innumerable company of angels saying, "our friend is worthy.
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- Don't be embarrassed of him."
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- "to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and
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- Honor and glory and praise.
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- Then i heard every creature in heaven on earth and under the
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- Earth and on the sea and all that is in them singing,
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- 'to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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- Honor and glory and power forever and ever.'"
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- That's our friend.
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- When he comes in his glory and it's revealed,
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- You'll be amazed at him.
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- I want us to close with that proclamation.
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- I took it from revelation 5.
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- I wanted you to know where it came from.
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- Why don't you stand? it's in your notes.
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- It's printed in microfiche size.
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- They will put it on the screens.
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- It might help.
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- Yes. god bless them.
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- Let's say it together. it's not ours.
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- We're joining an innumerable company of angels and every
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- Creature in heaven on earth will say this together.
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- We will say it together at some point in our future.
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- This just dress rehearsal.
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- What an honor to serve the king, to be jesus's people.
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- What a privilege.
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- Let's say it together.
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- "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
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- Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.
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- To him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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- Honor and glory and power forever and ever, amen."
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- Hallelujah.
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